Need more evidence that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is serious about a second presidential bid?

The governor’s new political action committee released an online ad earlier this week in which Perry takes on President Obama over immigration and border security. The ad includes news footage and soundbites from the dispute over an influx of Central American children being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The American people do not trust the current administration nor do they trust Congress to deal with this issue until the border is secure,” Perry is heard saying in the spot.

The ad by Rick PAC comes with a request for campaign donations to “stand with Governor Perry and elect leaders who will secure our border!”

Perry, who is retiring as Texas governor at the end of this term, was in Iowa earlier this week to get reacquainted with voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. He finished fifth in the 2012 Iowa caucuses, after his once-promising White House bid had already collapsed because of his famous “oops” moment in a presidential debate.

Perry told the Des Moines Register that Iowans will see a lot of him through the 2014 midterm elections, and he seemed to exult in his heckle-free performance at the newspaper’s political forum at the Iowa State Fair. When the moderator of the Register’s Soapbox thanked him for his remarks, Perry responded: “You’re welcome. I’m awesome!”

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